Artful dodgers: reconceiving the golden age of children's literature
| Artful dodgers: reconceiving the golden age of children's literature |
| Autore | Gubar Marah |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9928209034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Adolescence in literature
Children in literature Children's literature, English English literature |
| ISBN |
0199714479
0-19-988744-6 0-19-971447-9 1-281-98706-9 9786611987060 0-19-975674-0 0-19-986849-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910898692603321 |
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| Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods / / edited by Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith
| Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods / / edited by Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.9928209034 |
| Collana | Literary Cultures and Childhoods |
| Soggetto topico |
Children's literature
Comparative literature Literature, Modern - 19th century Social history Children's Literature Comparative Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Social History |
| ISBN |
9783031383519
3031383516 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods: An Introduction -- Works Cited -- Part I: Conceptualising the Infant and Child in Nineteenth-Century Print -- Chapter 2: Child Figures, Conceptualisations of Time, and Notions of Progress in Nineteenth-Century British Literature -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The Victorian Baby of Popular Fiction -- The Iconic Victorian Baby -- Caring for Babies in Popular Fiction: Advice and its Contradictions -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: The Child Reader: Children's Literary Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- Religious Reading -- Reading as Education -- Robinsonades and Modelling Education -- Fantasy and Vicarious Experience -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: "Being Editors": Childhood Over Time -- Works Cited -- Part II: Place and Nation -- Chapter 6: Constructing the "Scientific" Child in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Children's Periodicals -- The Religious and Scientific Child in Xiaohai Yuebao (The Child's Paper) -- Mengxue bao (The Children's Educator) and Anxieties about China's Future -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Idols on Display: Pacific Object Lessons for the British Child -- The Object Lesson -- Pōmare's Travelling Idols -- Visiting the Missionary Museum -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: "Bring[ing] back the fairy times": Framing the Child in Frances Browne's Granny's Wonderful Chair -- Framing the Story -- Framing the Author -- Works Cited -- Part III: Agency and Advocacy -- Chapter 9: "little conversations": Child Communities and Political Agency in the Writing of Frederick Douglass -- "By me, by me, by me!" -- "with my back against the wall, witnessing the playing of the others" -- Works Cited.
Chapter 10: Feeding Dickens's Dysfunctional Families: Advocating Social Surrogacy in The Adventures of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations -- Legal and Cultural Context -- Foodvoices, Families, and Society in Oliver Twist -- Foodvoices, Families, and Society in Great Expectations -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part IV: Gender, Nature and the Animal -- Chapter 11: "No other air, and no better water, than were to be obtained in her native parish": The Intellectual World of Jane Taylor's Display: A Tale for Young People -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12: Alienated Girlhood in Works by Christabel Coleridge -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13: "To a Joyous Land": Nature and Gender in Kate Greenaway's The Pied Piper of Hamelin -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14: Captive Animals and Disabled Children at the London Zoo -- The Empire and the Animal Body: The Victorian Zoo -- The City and the Disabled Body: The Rambles of a Rat -- The State and the Dependent Body: Two in a Zoo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910993986603321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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